Hey, thats really cool, good luck to you guys. Since I'm doing solo runs I'm not knowledgeable on coop specific strats, but I've seen that there are some pretty quick times with interesting coop strategies. For me glitchless elite hardmode is the quickest and also most enjoyable way of making money. If you ever want to try solo there are also a number of very quick glitchless guys, but sadly only very few do elite challenges.

It was possible before the Contract DLC if I remember correctly. Doing that you would continue to drive the longfin all the way to the cliff thats to the very right of that drainage outlet you are aiming for. Only when arriving on that cliff one would suicide. Then you would spawn just some odd 100m before Rubios helipad, basically just infront of your entry point. So its an older strat that was made impossible. In an even older Online version it was possible to just straight up jump on the island there, tho they added an invisible clip to prevent that.

Oh alright, and thanks for the tip with first person, very cool trick. But doing a later warp onto the island where you can skip getting a bike and just have to walk a short bit till getting directly to the compound door isnt possible anymore, is it? Comparing your run seems like it saves 0:15 on entry to the compound (and a total time of 2:00 to compound exit, which is very impressive to me). But for me at least (doing glitchless runs) this means having to do the Longfin prep which with ideal RnG is 0:45 longer (at least when im doing it) compared to the Kosatka prep. Sadly they patched the late warp which makes things even faster and sadly this only works in non hard mode. The compound route with this entry is definitely faster tho!

So its still possible when being far away enough from the island (but still close to be respawned on it)?

Hello everyone,

I'm new here and also kinda new to speedrunning. Since I acutally dont have billions available in GTAO I've kinda found myself grinding a bit and thus discovered this heist. Thats why started to try to consistently beat the whole heist as fast as possible while making the most amount of money. While doing so I discovered the idea of going against a timer and now I'm here.

I'd like to find out if any others are on here trying the same (or just doing glitchless runs) and would like to invite you to a discussion/exchange of routes/tips/tricks. Since I'm not a (good) speedrunner my attempts aren't the greatest, but I've found out some interesting stuff along the way. For example whilst being on foot you can skip English Dave calls by (if you have that selected as quick action) snacking.

Kind regards

Yes, no matter if to the left or to the right (on the cliff) the guards are always alerted in my testing.